An Analysis of Transitivity Structure in the Joint Statements concerning the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 2024

Serin, Tri Prima (2026) An Analysis of Transitivity Structure in the Joint Statements concerning the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 2024. S1 thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research explores the transitivity analysis of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to examine the joint statements by the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand regarding the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Halliday proposes transitivity as a set of choices that represent the human experience of the world by analyzing the Processes, Participants, and Circumstances. Therefore, the analysis investigates what are the transitivity structure found in the joint statements and the possible experiential meaning within them. The data consist of 48 sentences, and it came from the Official Australian Government websites that released two joint statements concerning the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 2023 and 2024. The data are then analysed by using Halliday’s SFL theoretical framework with a qualitative approach method and the results are presented in descriptive interpretation. It could be seen from the result that the predominant Process is Material with both 32.35% and 34%, followed by the most frequent participants, Goal (18.57% and 19.05%) and Phenomenon (17.14% and 9.52%), and then the circumstance of Location with both percentages of 36 % and 33.33%. Based on the results, the Prime Ministers tend to use action rather than simple statements to respond to the conflict of Israel and Palestine. This expresses their position as other country leaders to side with humanism and support both conflict-ridden countries to a ceasefire. Based on the transitivity analysis, the possible interpretation is that the Prime Ministers explicitly urge Israel and Palestine to stop their attacks and resolve the conflict by joining a two-state solution.

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